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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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zvone187

Apr 4 '23

How to mock ALL external data sources and completely isolate the codebase while testing

#node #opensource #computerscience #testing

7 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Apr 4 '23

Developer Experience is more important than ever (by the numbers)

#opensource #webdev #devops #programming

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 3 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #151

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Apr 4 '23

Introduction to Cloudforet

#cloudforet #linuxfoundation #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Gianluca

Apr 4 '23

Scaling Event-Driven Applications Made Easy with Sveltos Cross-Cluster Configuration

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #eventdriven

5 min read

Johannes Hötter for Kern AI

Apr 1 '23

Twitter Issues are a mess!!

#twitter #github #opensource #nlp

5 min read

iribama

Apr 3 '23

Medusa: An Ecommerce Platform and Its Features

#beginners #ecommerce #opensource #medusa

8 min read

ringabout

Apr 3 '23

Contribute to the Python-like Nim language

#python #programming #opensource #beginners

2 min read

SurveyJS for _SurveyJS

Apr 3 '23

No-code Editor for Domain Models

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Mar 23 '23

TOP 4 open-source AI to code like a PRO 🧠 🤖

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

2 min read

Apr 2 '23

5 Awesome GitHub Repositories To Contribute To!

#opensource #git #github #beginners

2 min read

ABIJITH

Apr 2 '23

GIT:Basic commands

#git #opensource #githubactions #github

4 min read

Lume

Apr 1 '23

Google Announces Open-Sourcing of Their Ranking Algorithm

#news #opensource #google #community

1 min read

Nir Gazit

Mar 30 '23

Building a new type of testing framework

#discuss #opensource #testing #javascript

2 min read

SyedAsadRazaDevops

Apr 2 '23

How To Deploy Jitsi Meet(video conference) on Ubuntu

#jitsi #meet #jitsimeet #opensource

2 min read

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